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Rick Ross Shooting: Police Obtain Video Footage, 50 Cent Doubts Shooting on Twitter

Rick Ross Shooting – Rick Ross crashed his Rolls-Royce in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida early Monday morning after allegedly becoming the target of a drive by shooting. Meanwhile, 50 Cent is skeptic of the drive by and is accusing Ross of staging the entire ordeal.

According to TMZ Rick Ross was driving the Rolls-Royce with a female passenger when a car suddenly pulled up beside his vehicle and fired several shots into his car.

The female passenger was Shateria L Moragne-el, 28, who the “Hustlin” rapper is supposedly dating.

It is believed that they were the only two passengers in the vehicle and they both escaped without injury.

Local reports are revealing that “dozens” of shots were fired into the car and they were all intended for Ross.

Although the suspects of the crime fled the scene before police could arrive it has been confirmed that security cameras from a nearby building were taping during the time of the incident and may have caught the shooting on tape. Cops aren’t hopefully that the footage will reveal any faces, but they are hoping it will help them identify the vehicle that was used in the shooting.

No suspects have been named in the shooting and the one of the few witnesses that stepped forward could only confirm Ross’s identity.

Beth Balk, a waitress at the nearby Floridian Restaurant, told The Sun that she was asleep when she heard the bang of a loud crash outside. It was then that she discovered the silver Rolls Royce smashed up against her building.

While she did see both Ross and Moragne-el in the car she could not tell who they were until police showed photos of the victims to her later. After seeing the photo of the famous rapper Balk confirmed that he was the one she saw inside the car after the crash.

“Yes, that’s definitely the guy,” she said after looking at the photo.

Detective DeAnna Garcia believe the incident started around 5 a.m. along Las Olas Boulevard.

“An unknown vehicle shot a couple of rounds,” Garcia said. “The vehicle was not struck.”

While the vehicle wasn’t hit with the bullets, it did cause William L. Roberts (Rick Ross’s government name) to swerve to avoid the bullets and run off the road into the Floridian Restaurant.

While police are gathering surveillance footage of the incident to try to identify suspects, rapper 50 cent who has been beefing with Ross for a while now, thinks he has the entire incident figure out.

According to the Curtis Jackson III, 50 Cent’s real name, the entire drive-by shooting and car crash was staged.

An NBC affiliate gave their version of the story reporting, “Police officials say shots were fired around 5 a.m. in the area of Southeast 15th Avenue and E. Las Olas Boulevard… the Rolls Royce was traveling eastbound on Las Olas when another vehicle opened fire on it, police said…When the Rolls tried to get away, it crashed into the building at 311 Southeast 15th Avenue.”

According to 50 cent, however, the story is much simpler.

“Hahahaha fat boy hit the building? Lol it looks staged to me,” 50 Cent tweeted. “No hole’s in da car.”

Of course, others have decided to weigh on the “New Day” rapper’s comment and if Ricky Rozay did stage the shooting they can’t see why.

“The alleged Rick Ross drive-by is the first high-profile hip hop shooting in a while, following the 2010 death of Hot 97′s ‘DJ Megatron’ and last year’s shooting of rapper M-Bone as he was leaving the studio,” Death and Taxes wrote. “But the days of rap’s top players falling like dominoes seemingly every other day do feel like a bygone era at this point.”

In other words, while back in the day getting shot 9 times (like in 50 Cent’s case) did a lot of good for a rapper’s sales, in this day and age it doesn’t have the same impact. Fans are willing to buy into the gangster rap story of a rapper getting shot, stabbed, or robbing and suddenly being a fan of their music.

In fact, many former gangster rappers have been tweaking their images and although they aren’t squeaky clean they certainly aren’t stabbing each other anymore –despite the fact that they may talk about it.

Either way, there is not evidence to suggest that the shooting was staged but hopefully the facts will be laid out when police get a look at the surveillance tapes.

 

 

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